This lady is, and those that supported her are, in my eyes, heroes.She had no idea what she was letting herself in for. The full collection of Lunar Orbiter data amounted to 2,500 tapes. Assembled on pallets, they constituted an imposing monolith 10 feet wide, 20 feet long and 6 feet high ( Read more... )

I have thousands of books. Once, we considered creating a library of role-playing books and games and making it available on line so that some of those books I own actually get used by people. But the stumbling block was cataloguing it all and creating the necessary database to make it searchable and keep track of everything.

grandexperiment, I think, suggested ( Read more... )

allyn pointed us at this article on anarchist librarians and the Ministry of Reshelving and I thought that certain people on my flist might appreciate it being passed on.

Which reminds me, have the librarian-minded persons I know read Sean McMullen's Souls in the Great Machine yet, which stars duelling female librarians in a renaissance-style post- ( Read more... )

Posted for my librarian friends, in case they didn't see it elsewher ( Read more... )